When the term Europa was first used around 1500, it referred to the areas over which the Frankish ruler Charlemagne had nominally held jurisdiction, a territory far smaller than that which the word Europe implies today.

Burnamy had heard her history; in fact, he had already roughed out a poem on it, which he called Europa, not after the old fable, but because it seemed to him that she expressed Europe, on one side of its civilization, and had an authorized place in its order, as she would not have had in ours.

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Europa was the beautiful daughter of the Phoenician king of Tyre, Agenor. Accordingo to Greek mythology, Zeus, the King of the gods, saw Europa as she was gathering flowers by the sea and immediately fell in love with her.